The tonearm is in the lid & the laser is next to it...
the laser automatically scans the record when the lid is first closed, and it reads the gaps btween the songs for programming purposes...
but the tonearm has a conventional stylus in it....
kinda cool, although it's not something I use everytime I listen to a record...

Ah, so the laser is not actually used to read the audio info, thanks for clearing that up._________________A nobody in a world of somebodies
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when i was a kid i remember seeing one in a magazine that was basically a toy bus that you wind up, and put on top of a record, and it drives around the record and plays it. i guess it had a needle underneath it and a speaker in the back etc. i think they were japanese..._________________Y-PESTIS.COM